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Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC

By : Václav Pekárek
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Book Image

Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC

5 (1)
By: Václav Pekárek

Overview of this book

Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC will take you to the next level in your web development career. After working through all the essentials of gRPC, Blazor, and source generators, you will be far from a beginner C# developer and would qualify as a developer with intermediate knowledge of the Blazor ecosystem. After a quick primer on the basics of Blazor technology, REST, gRPC, and source generators, you’ll dive straight into building Blazor WASM applications. You’ll learn about everything from two-way bindings and Razor syntax to project setup. The practical emphasis continues throughout the book as you steam through creating data repositories, working with REST, and building and registering gRPC services. The chapters also cover how to manage source generators, C# and debugging best practices, and more. There is no shorter path than this book to solidify your gRPC-enabled web development knowledge. By the end of this book, your knowledge of building Blazor applications with one of the most modern and powerful frameworks around will equip you with a highly sought-after skill set that you can leverage in the best way possible.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Introducing Blazor, gRPC, and Source Generators

Let us start our journey in this book by first getting to know our three main technological co-travelers: Blazor, gRPC, and source generators.

The Blazor framework is an open source web framework developed by Microsoft. It is a free-to-use, single-page application (SPA) framework that enables a smooth development process while writing both the server and client parts of the application in .NET and C#. It can be used for dynamic websites but can also generate static websites without the need for expensive website hosting.

On the other hand, Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC) is a multi-environment open source Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework. It uses HTTP/2 for connecting services between data centers, but also for connecting mobile applications and browsers to backend services. gRPC includes optional features for authentication, bidirectional streaming, health checks, and more, along with support for cross-platform client...